McDonald’s Workers Protest Broken Promises

April 3 – McDonald’s workers in a half dozen cities took to the streets today to protest McDonald’s corporation after it was revealed that the company has not kept up it’s promise to pay workers more than $1 over the local minimum wage. From Bloomberg:

A series of recent pay stubs for 16 McDonald’s employees in eight cities … show workers receiving hourly rates that are substantially less than a dollar above the current local minimum.

“McDonald’s publicity stunt has turned out to be a sham,” said Kayla Kuper, who is paid $11.40/hour at a McDonald’s corporate store in Chicago, when she should be paid a minimum of $12/hour. “We can’t take this company at its word. That’s why we need union rights – so that we can hold McDonald’s accountable and win the decent wage and basic benefits we need to support our families.”

We’re live at McDonalds because they made a promise to raise wages and they didn’t do it. They lied to us and we’re not loving it